Performance Arts
In addition to Visual Arts, creative opportunities include Drama, Improv, Dance, and Music (guitar, drumming/percussion, piano). Participants in Music and Drama hold at least one public performance each year. L.A. GOAL Members have written and produced three original plays, each starting with a written drama workshop and ending with a full theatrical play in a professional theater.
Three women wearing black stand on stage, in front of shelf containing fictional books.
For example, in 2019, Members performed I Remember, a play they wrote about memories from their lives, at The Blue Door Theater in Culver City. In 2014 and 2015, they wrote and performed Advocates and Love, a play about self-advocacy, advocates, and love. It was performed at the Ivy Substation, home of The Actor’s Gang. Talking Vanities, the Member’s first original play, explored the conversations we all have in front of the bathroom mirror. L.A. GOAL artists created props for the play. L.A. GOAL Members performed the play for the entire student body and faculty at the Brentwood School.
In addition to being fun, Performing Arts improve self-awareness, self-esteem, critical thinking, communication, and fine/gross motor skills.